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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>The planners are envisioning having staff
do the typing of session notes. In other words, convenors would, as
always, be responsible for seeing that the notes are taken. Convenors
would then hand them off to staff to type up after their sessions.</span></font><font
color=navy><span lang=EN-GB style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=3 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy;
mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'> </span></font><font color=navy><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:35.4pt'><font size=2 color=navy
face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>My instinct is to advise against this and
invite these folks to take responsibility for seeing that the notes are entered
themselves. My client is skeptical that any sessions would actually make
it into the computers this way.</span></font><font color=navy><span lang=EN-GB
style='color:navy;mso-color-alt:windowtext;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Hi, I’ve been
pretty much a lurker until now and have enjoyed from the background so many
discussions. But I do have a few ideas and thoughts about this that I’d like to
share.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>First of all, I
think it is a good instinct to want to have the convenors involved in the reporting
process and to be actively working on the reports. It is a second step in
clarifying and working through ideas…and one that may be missing from these
people’s lives in general so it could be extremely valuable to give them this
opportunity within the OST.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>However that said, I think it may be a good idea to facilitate their use
of these machines. For that I have a couple of thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><span
class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy face="Century Gothic"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>is there a way to find out if
the people coming feel intimidated by the computer? I know that many
people who don’t work with computers regularly not only don’t like to do
this, they are afraid (that something will go wrong, that they can’t, that
the computer will explode…). Of course it may not always be said that way.
But if part of the problem is also this “fear of the unfamiliar” it would
be useful to know so you can support them, perhaps by having extra helpers
at the computer bank, who people can turn to, or ask for typing
instructions. Or help with the work. If you could help them by providing
support, it may also help them in learning a new “skill”, and realizing
the value of being connected to taking down their own materials.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='color:navy;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt'><span
class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy face="Century Gothic"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Another option is perhaps to
have them write their reports themselves by hand, and then letting a
scribe type it over with them supervising the process (so they are there
to again get the material through their heads. <span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>I keep thinking when I read this that typing is
something that people who are not used to doing it find very difficult. If
they really don’t type (also at home – like my old boss) a keyboard
becomes a very frightening thing, very complex and overwhelming. Working with
a scribe (read a good typist) could facilitate the technical problems with
typing while at the same time keeping involvement high.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></li>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Pehraps a
combination of the two would be a good idea (helpers for the computer + a few
people who really can type well and help those who just can’t do it). <o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I think
facilitating the process of getting a report on paper can be valuable, but I
too think that there should be involvement by a convenor at each step (this in
itself is already different for these people).<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>Another thing pops into my mind as I think of this that I
thought I’d mention too. In a sense, these highly “successful” people have not
taken notes for so long that they may be at a beginner’s level with this.<span
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>By asking them to do in some way you
are putting them into a learning process where they may be going way back (in
their perception) to an earlier time in their development. (Like when you are
an adult learning a foreign language and you feel like a child or it brings
back difficult emotions about related to earlier leraning experiences.) So I
can imagine that for some of these people this will be a very big and good
challenge on many levels (including on the level of<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>how they see their power).<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>I hope this helps
a bit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'><![if !supportEmptyParas]> <![endif]><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=EmailStijl17><font size=2 color=navy
face="Century Gothic"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:"Century Gothic";mso-ansi-language:EN-GB'>Doris Gottlieb<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></p>
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